Quotes about Manic depression

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I didn't realize there was a ranking." I said. "Sadie frowned. "What do you mean?" "A ranking," I said. "You know, what' — Michael Thomas Ford
I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swall — Nicole Lyons, Hush
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or — Vincent van Gogh
I know the empathy borne of despair; I know the fluidity of thought, the expansive, even beautiful, mind that hypomania — David Lovelace, Scattershot: My Bipolar Family
I now know for certain that my mind and emotions, my fix on the real and my family's well-being, depend on just a few gr — David Lovelace, Scattershot: My Bipolar Family
One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards — Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from an — Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life
Compared to bipolar's magic, reality seems a raw deal. It's not just the boredom that makes recovery so difficult, it's — David Lovelace, Scattershot: My Bipolar Family
[ ] manic sex isn't really intercourse. It's dicourse, just another way to ease the insatiable need for contact and comm — Terri Cheney, Manic: A Memoir
Her parents, she said, has put a pinball machine inside her head when she was five years old. The red balls told her whe — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
I don’t existmetal pressed to pagesspilling blood, inkin vein each thought ragesSunlight shootingthrough a forest of pin — Abby Musgrove
Depression is a painfully slow, crashing death. Mania is the other extreme, a wild roller coaster run off its tracks, an — David Lovelace, Scattershot: My Bipolar Family
When I am high I couldn’t worry about money if I tried. So I don’t. The money will come from somewhere; I am entitled; G — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
It's difficult. I take a low dose of lithium nightly. I take an antidepressant for my darkness because prayer isn't enou — David Lovelace, Scattershot: My Bipolar Family
In our family "whim-wham" is code, a defanged reference to any number of moods and psychological disorders, be they depr — David Lovelace, Scattershot: My Bipolar Family
It’s a little-known secret, and it should probably stay that way: attempting suicide usually jump-starts your brain chem — Terri Cheney, Manic: A Memoir
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricochetin — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself an — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We — Marc Maron, Attempting Normal
I've been accustomed to mysteries, holy and otherwise, since I was a child. Some of us care for orphans, amass fortunes, — David Lovelace, Scattershot: My Bipolar Family